And yet we know from the video that the driver immediately assessed the situation and determined the outcome just by glancing up. SDC tech has a long way to go. And Uber, with their tendency to lie, steal, cheat and then lie some more, is not the company that is going to bring it to us.

And yet we know from the video that the driver immediately assessed the situation and determined the outcome just by glancing up. SDC tech has a long way to go. And Uber, with their tendency to lie, steal, cheat and then lie some more, is not the company that is going to bring it to us.

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Truth be told, the "driver" is the one who killed the lady. He/she was staring at their cellphone for a continuous 6-7 seconds immediately prior to impact.

Not defending the driver, I'm just saying that from the video we can see that as soon as he/she glanced up and saw the lady crossing the street he/she immediately knew that there was a person in the path of the vehicle and that the vehicle and the human were going to intersect. Meanwhile the tech saw the person and said "screw it, probably a bag rolling across the street." And that was a programming choice Uber made to mask the issues with their SDC tech which can't go half a mile without human intervention.

Gotta love the wording. The "software" was at fault.
Not the programmers for dialing down the program.
Not Uber, for instructing the programmers to dial down the program.
Apparently it was a self programming software.

Uber just admitted fault of a negligent homocide. Most states have an inclusion in accidents that state if you can avoid an accident and you don't then the outcome is your fault. Uber admitted that their autonomous saw the pedestrian but did nothing to avoid the accident.

Meanwhile the tech saw the person and said "screw it, probably a bag rolling across the street." And that was a programming choice Uber made to mask the issues with their SDC tech which can't go half a mile without human intervention.

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You're absolutely right -- and that is the landmine in all this for Uber. This is NOT a random technical glitch. This is a conscious, deliberate decision on the part of Uber managers that led to the woman's death.

Key Question: What happens in organizations when you have a program that is not going well? Pressure from above to meet the numbers. And the level of pressure is directly proportional to the importance of the program.

How important is the autonomous vehicle program to Uber? Uber sees both SDC's and Pool as critical to their survival.

Alphabet’s self-driving company, Waymo, had a rate of 5,600 miles per intervention in California. (At the time, Uber pointed out this is not the only metric by which to measure self-driving progress.)"

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So...to improve their performance and show "progress" to their bosses, the SDC team relaxed the sensitivity of the SDC's reaction to input from the LIDAR and other detection systems.

I mean, there is a HUMAN SAFETY DRIVER in the car at all times...what's the worst that could happen?

"Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird will just shit all over the board and strut around like it won anyway."

Gotta love the wording. The "software" was at fault.
Not the programmers for dialing down the program.
Not Uber, for instructing the programmers to dial down the program.
Apparently it was a self programming software.

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That's how they plan to avoid jail time for anyone working for them in the future, making code responsible.

And yet we know from the video that the driver immediately assessed the situation and determined the outcome just by glancing up. SDC tech has a long way to go. And Uber, with their tendency to lie, steal, cheat and then lie some more, is not the company that is going to bring it to us.